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Buckhead and northern Atlanta is closer to Charlotte and Dallas. Very modem expressive, electric and materialistic.
Midtown and Eastern Atlanta is closer to Austin. Very quirky, a lot of hispsters. Atlanta's gay hub and etc.
Downtown, the west and south sides are like neither, they are closer to other southern historic industrial cities. Like Birmingham and Memphis.
But that's culture wise, Obviously environment wise is a very different story. Charlotte wouldn't be much like Austin and it's nothing like Dallas. But by geography and lay out Charlotte is closer to Atlanta. I agree with Mutiny's point all the factors that make these 4 cities different are not being look at. But base on the cultural things stated by the OP Charlotte is more like Dallas than Austin.
I'd say that those areas of Atlanta are far more comparable to the Oak Lawn/Uptown area of Dallas than they are to Austin, which is more college crowd and less gay oriented.
I'd say that those areas of Atlanta are far more comparable to the Oak Lawn/Uptown area of Dallas than they are to Austin, which is more college crowd and less gay oriented.
Georgia Tech is technically in midtown, and you know Atlanta is partly a collage town too, but I get your point. None of this is going to come out a perfect match at either in.
Georgia Tech is technically in midtown, and you know Atlanta is partly a collage town too, but I get your point. None of this is going to come out a perfect match at either in.
Austin doesn't have hipsters; that's broke college kids on bathsalts.
Nah. When last were you in Austin? SoCo has an equal mix of yuppies and hipsters. And Central East Austin is so overwhelmingly hipsterish that even Forbes has noticed:
None of them are students: tattoo artists, carpenters, hedge-fund managers with an edge, web-designers etc. It sometimes feels like there is this secret cyber-tunnel between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and East Austin. I see the same people in both places rather often.
Dallas has a few tiny hipster pockets in lower Greenville, Knox-Henderson, North Oak Cliff, but nothing on the scale of Williamsburg or East Austin. Charlotte has always struck me as distinctly un/anti-hipster.
The southern equivalent of Dallas to me would be Atlanta. That said while Charlotte is closer to Austin in size, it feels not unlike Plano "culturally."
Nah. When last were you in Austin? SoCo has an equal mix of yuppies and hipsters. And Central East Austin is so overwhelmingly hipsterish that even Forbes has noticed:
None of them are students: tattoo artists, carpenters, hedge-fund managers with an edge, web-designers etc. It sometimes feels like there is this secret cyber-tunnel between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and East Austin. I see the same people in both places rather often.
Dallas has a few tiny hipster pockets in lower Greenville, Knox-Henderson, North Oak Cliff, but nothing on the scale of Williamsburg or East Austin. Charlotte has always struck me as distinctly un/anti-hipster.
The southern equivalent of Dallas to me would be Atlanta. That said while Charlotte is closer to Austin in size, it feels not unlike Plano "culturally."
Which isn't exactly a bad thing. Charlotte has its hip crowds, but probably not what the mainstream would call "hipsters".
Charlotte seems more corporate, financial, and just typical city-like (which I don't really think is a bad thing). It'd would be closer to Dallas but really it's neither Austin nor Dallas.
Which isn't exactly a bad thing. Charlotte has its hip crowds, but probably not what the mainstream would call "hipsters".
Charlotte has a few hipster pockets, most notably Dilworth and NoDA, but overall it's not a huge hipster town. Austin's entire identity is tied to the hipster fad.
Nah. When last were you in Austin? SoCo has an equal mix of yuppies and hipsters. And Central East Austin is so overwhelmingly hipsterish that even Forbes has noticed:
None of them are students: tattoo artists, carpenters, hedge-fund managers with an edge, web-designers etc. It sometimes feels like there is this secret cyber-tunnel between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and East Austin. I see the same people in both places rather often.
Dallas has a few tiny hipster pockets in lower Greenville, Knox-Henderson, North Oak Cliff, but nothing on the scale of Williamsburg or East Austin. Charlotte has always struck me as distinctly un/anti-hipster.
The southern equivalent of Dallas to me would be Atlanta. That said while Charlotte is closer to Austin in size, it feels not unlike Plano "culturally."
There is a cyber tunnel between Williamsburg and parts of SF and Oakland.
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